Quote for the Day

[Shin]

'Always give the preference to actions which appear to you the most agreeable to God, and most contrary to self-love.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

[Shin]

'This very moment I may, if I desire, become the friend of God.'

St. Augustine

[Shin]

'Nothing but self-will can separate us from God.'

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

[Shin]

'This is the business of our life. By labor and prayer to advance in the grace of God, till we come to that height of perfection in which, with clean hearts, we may behold God.'

St. Augustine

[Shin]

'Pray persistently about everything, and then you will never do anything without God's help.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

[Shin]

'Take a house that has been for a long time very dirty and neglected -- it is in vain to sweep it out, there will always be a nasty smell. It is the same with our soul after confession; it requires tears to purify it. My children, we must ask earnestly for repentance. After confession, we must plant a thorn in our heart, and never lose sight of our sins. We must do as the angel did to St. Francis of Assisi; he fixed in him five darts, which never came out again.'

St. Jean Marie Baptiste Vianney, the Cure of Ars

[Shin]

'May the perfect love of God reign in our hearts!'

St. Louis Marie de Montfort

[Shin]

'Souls who aspire to a sublime union with God by contemplation usually suffer interior purgations in one way or another.'

St. Paul of the Cross

[Shin]

'When a person who has been living a spiritual life for a long time falls into a serious fault, there is no better way of raising him up again than by exhorting him to manifest his fall to any pious friend with whom he has a particular intimacy: and God will reconduct him to his first estate for the sake of his humility.'

St. Philip Neri

[Shin]

'It was God's will that I should leave everything that was near and dear to me. I thank him for having called me to religious life where I have found such peace and joy as I could never have found in the world. My plan of life is chiefly this: to love and suffer, always meditating upon, adoring and admiring God's unspeakable love for his lowliest creatures.'

St. Conrad of Parzham

[Shin]

'If I wish thee to be deaf, dumb and blind in My presence, must thou not be content to be so?'

The Lord, to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

[Shin]

'My son, give me thy heart: and let thy eyes keep my ways.'

Proverbs 23:26

[Shin]

'Man has been created to praise, honor, and serve the Lord his God, and in this way to save his soul; and everything else on earth exists for man to aid him to reach the end which God has marked out for him in creating him. He must, then, use things as long only as they conduct him. to this end, and abstain from them whenever they turn him aside from it.'

St. Ignatius of Loyola

[Shin]

'If we want to do something but cannot, then before God, who knows our hearts, it is as if we have done it. This is true whether the intended action is good or bad.'

St. Mark the Ascetic

[Shin]

'As long as the pot is on the fire, no fly nor any other animal can get near it, but as soon as it is cold, these creatures get inside. So it is for the monk; as long as he lives in spiritual activities, the enemy cannot find a means of overthrowing him.'

St. Poemen

[Shin]

'Jesus expires on the cross! He is dead that we may have life. All creation mourns: the sun darkens, the earth trembles, the rocks burst, and the veil of the temple is rent in twain; my heart alone remains harder than a rock!'

St. Paul of the Cross